This is Boyce Tate. Today: Increasing clouds and 54
Here is the revised Madisonville Sanitation Department schedule. Tomorrow, the 23rd, they will run their TUESDAY and WEDNESDAYschedule. On Friday, they will run the Thursday and Friday routes.
It took six miles, but a Sebree driver could not get away from some Webster County Sheriff’s Office deputies. On Friday night, 21-year-old Skyler Patterson was pulled over on U-S 41 for an equipment violation when he floored it. Now, Patterson faces 8 charges.
The Webster County bridge east of Providence that was closed for a month is open for traffic. It’s over Bull Creek which is at the 10-mile mark on Kentucky 1-20.
The mayor of Dawson Springs is hoping that the rebuild of her city will include a training facility. Here’s Jenny Sewell.
Sewell is hoping to see this start to move in 3 or 4 months.
The new McDonalds in Hanson has its grand opening today. It’s located on the road to Walmart known as Valor Way. The official ribbon cutting ceremony with the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce will begin this morning at 9.
The state is using a new radio system that is said to provide more reliable communications between first responders. The governor says as much as anything, the new Statewide Emergency Responder Voice System will help first responders to know that the state wants to give them every opportunity to be successful. Much of Eastern Kentucky will need to install the new equipment. The radio system is free for local agencies if their equipment is compatible.
The Madisonville police say the fatal injuries infliced by an adult male on himself with a gun were determined to be self-inflicted. It occurred Saturday night at Wings Incorporated on Market Square Drive. The police say there was no evidence of foul play. The man’s name will be released once the family is notified. Officers attempted life saving measures.
The driver who attempted to avoid a traffic stop by speeding away on East Center Street is facing two charges. Before entering I-69, Barry Hale surrendered at the on-ramp. The officer immediately detected the smell of alcohol. In denying having any alcohol, the officer told Hale that he saw him toss it out the window. While appearing unsteady on his feet and slurring his words, Hale took the sobriety test and failed it. Records show this was Hale’s second D-U-I charge.
A Hanson man is recovering from a two-vehicle collision in Hopkinsville. The police say 57-year-old Mario Frias was driving a box truck on West 2nd Street when 64-year-old Stafford Cherry of Hopkinsville hit him from behind. Both Frias and Cherry visited the Jennie Stuart Health E-R.
Congressman James Comer is standing with Kentucky’s pharmacists by introducing bipartisan legislation aimed at lowering life-saving prescription drug costs. He also says it protects community pharmacists, and stops the predatory practices of Pharmacy Benefit Managers.
From the C-Plant Federal Credit Union Newsroom, I’m Boyce Tate.
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